| General Features | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
|
2.1.8
|
1.32.2
|
5.1.21
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Atlassian
|
Foswiki Community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL
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GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
| Hosting Features | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Any with PHP support
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
none
|
A common browser
|
| Datastorage | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Yes
|
optional extensions available
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
97 ⭐
|
N/A
|
7039 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | Foswiki | MediaWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{{monospaced}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~~subscript~~ |
| Images |
|
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
; term : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
---- |
---- |
| remove Confluence | remove Foswiki | remove MediaWiki | remove TiddlyWiki |